I'm glad the father/son Achilles Heel team dropped out. No sense risking permanent injury for a chance at winning. One is never more than one bad taxi driver away from being eliminated on this show. Really want the Youtube twerps to go away.

-as dramatic entertainment, i think it falls pretty flat. there isnt enough narrative to draw emotion-as a tool to teach biblical stories, i think it works pretty well. most people have heard of moses, abraham, king david, etc, but dont really know their stories which i think is kind of interesting. growing up and even in schools you learn stories about hercules, perseus, odysseus, beowulf, king arthur, etc, but you never touch any of this stuff. even during the course of normal church services you never hear these stories - its like you were supposed to doing the readings before showing up to class where the prof talks about something else.

i think the people who really like it/are giving it the high ratings are people already very familiar with the stories and are using their own imaginations to fill in what the show is missing.

pittsoccer33 wrote:even during the course of normal church services you never hear these stories...

You need to find a new church

have you been watching? what do you think?

It's all on my DVR at the moment. I caught about 10 minutes of episode 1. Saw the last plague through the parting of the Red Sea. Visually it was cool. It could use some more production value but you get what you pay for.

A friend of mine summed it up well I think (based on the little I saw):

Remember – this is a televised interpretation and retelling of the Bible; it is not the actual thing. Any time the story is transposed from it’s original medium (either the Hebrew Scrolls or Greek Papyri), it loses some meaning and eliminates important points. We have to remind ourselves that this is not the inspired Word of God; it is a tool that points viewers to the inspired Word of God by displaying some of its features. By nature, the miniseries cannot be 100% accurate; only the Word itself is totally infallible and inerrant. This is not the Word of God – but the word of man about the Word of God. Having said that, I believe it has thus far been sound.